Taste sensitivity in older adults and their relationship to sleep quality

Introduction: Aging may cause some physiological changes, including loss of taste sensitivity, especially for bitter and salty flavors, as well as modifications in sleep architecture, such as increased sleep latency, awakenings at night, reduction in sleep efficiency and greater daytime sleepiness, which may culminate in changes in the sleep quality. Some studies relate the taste sensitivity to sleep disorders, but the researches are still scarce, and the controversial results. In this sense, the aim of the present study was to evaluate the taste sensitivity, the sleep pattern, and verify if was correlation between them, in the older adults population.

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